Just for fun...

[6zfshdb]

One of those body art emporiums opened up at the mini mall next to the paint & hardware store.

Now, I can get screwed, blued and tattooed all in one place!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Now, I can get screwed, blued and tattooed all in one place!

Doesn't get much better than that.

 

[Darth_Vado]

For these bike fans, it's definitely just for fun!
Driving north on the San Diego Freeway recently, we came up on this convoy of cars and trucks with unusually colorful bikes on back just south of LA...

Going through Anaheim, that's the Santa Ana freeway
(the 5 through here is Santa Ana fwy, and the 405 is the San Diego fwy)

 

[PedalUma]

Going through Anaheim, that's the Santa Ana freeway
(the 5 through here is Santa Ana fwy, and the 405 is the San Diego fwy)

One time I was headed north on the 5 at the 405 merge when a car two behind me in the fast lane rear-ended another another while doing 85 and flipped up and over the divide into oncoming traffic in front of a big rig. That truck driver had balls of steel. Instead of flinching, swerving and causing dozens of deaths, he kept an unflinching straight corse.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Going through Anaheim, that's the Santa Ana freeway
(the 5 through here is Santa Ana fwy, and the 405 is the San Diego fwy)

Always wondered where the Anaheim Freeway is.

So the Lincoln and Euclid exits off I-5 are north of the I-405 split? South of that split, I-5 is the official San Diego Freeway, right? We started in Carlsbad.

 

[Chargeride]

Been out 9 hours, starting to flag.

 

[Darth_Vado]

Always wondered where the Anaheim Freeway is.

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So the Lincoln and Euclid exits off I-5 are north of the I-405 split? South of that split, I-5 is the official San Diego Freeway, right? We started in Carlsbad.

So coming up from Carlsbad, the 5 is San Diego Fwy until the El Toro Y in Irvine, where the 5/405 splits (or meet depending on which way you are going) the 5 becomes the Santa Ana Fwy, and the 405 becomes the San Diego fwy throughout OC and LA County. The 5 then becomes the Golden State fwy at the E. LA interchange.

This is probably why we refer to freeways simply by their number, The 5, The101, the 10, etc...

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

This is probably why we refer to freeways simply by their number, The 5, The101, the 10, etc...

We came to SoCal from Colorado 4 yrs ago, and from the Bay Area (NorCal) 20 years before that. In all of those places, an I-5 would be "I-5" or just "5" with no "the" in front.

Adapting to life in SoCal's generally been easy as pie, but we have yet to pick up that "the". Guess we still have a little work to do to call ourselves fully assimilated Southern Californians.
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